Home for the Fight
Spoilers: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3(Olivia, The Box, The Plateau, Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep, Amber 31422, 6955 kHz, The Abducted).
Disclaimer: If I owned Fringe...Olivia would be on the right side and with Peter.
Two days passed, he did what he could and since she was staying at Rachel's till a new apartment was found, he sent a bouquet of roses both days as well a card each time that had only one thing written on it: It doesn't matter, I want YOU the way you are.
He had to be vague because of Rachel, knowing her sister would never understand. Two more days passed and it was when Amy Jessup arrived at the Harvard lab that he knew Olivia had finally taken that leave of absence Broyles had given her if she wanted it.
"So Bishop, we'll be working together for the next case." She handed him a file and he opened it, finding a case that was just up his alley: biological-based robbery.
The case took a week, each day he sent a bouquet of roses to Rachel's apartment for Olivia but the note changed: I miss you Sweetheart, just call to let me know you're okay. Each day however came without a call and after eleven days he decided that Olivia had had enough space and needed a good talking to.
Knocking on the door, he found Rachel as she opened it. "Hey, thank God you're here…Liv is a mess."
"I know, she got some bad news two weeks ago and after she has refused to answer my calls…did she get the flowers?"
"I told her you sent them and each time she told me to throw them out." Rachel took his coat as she shut the door, "of course I didn't, they're in the kitchen or in a room…it was sweet."
Peter made his way to the kitchen where he heard voices and found Ella sitting with Olivia playing Candyland. "Double yellow, I won!" Ella jumped up and down and hugged Olivia, who beamed at her niece.
Peter could tell from her eyes that she felt robbed of the joy Ella had, of not being able to see it on her own child's face. "Hey, Peter's here." Rachel came over and Ella smiled.
"Uncle Peter!" Ella ran to Peter and he picked up the seven year old, hugging her. "I missed you Uncle Peter…why'd you go away?"
Peter chuckled, "I didn't go away, I've been here the whole time."
Olivia stood, "we had a fight, that's why he was away."
"Aunt Liv's been so sad, I thought you went away again…like last time, she got really sad then too. You aren't going away again are you?"
"Nope."
"Never ever?"
"Never ever, your aunt and you and your mom are stuck with me."
He chuckled and put Ella down, she ran off. "We need to talk Liv, get your coat and lets go for a walk."
She shook her head, "I meant what I said two weeks ago."
"No you don't mean that and besides, I don't give a damn about what Mulara said…it doesn't matter to me."
Olivia stared at him, ignoring Rachel. "How can it not matter…you want a family and I can't give you that. You said you wanted children and I can't…"
"That was just one possible future, I don't care 'Livia…I want you. I told you before that YOU are my future…YOU! I came back for you, you told me that I belong with you…I don't care about children right now…and even down the road, there's always adoption.
"Now, I want you to stop doing this to yourself…I want you to get off your ass and start being who you are again. We can get passed this just like everything else but this, what you're doing, this isn't my Olivia…she doesn't just sit around and cry, she takes on the storm head first.
"If it makes you feel better, by all means kick the crap out of me or take your gun to the range and take your anger out on a few targets but stop doing this to yourself. Now, get your coat, I'm taking you to get something to eat because knowing you…all you've had is whiskey and crackers the last few days."
Olivia looked at Peter and her eyes narrowed before she left in the direction of the bedroom. Rachel chuckled and shook her head. "Looks like you have your hands full with her."
"Don't get me started," he waited and Olivia eventually returned in jeans, a black shirt and her coat as well as black boots. She was pulling her hair back in a ponytail as she entered the room.
"Is this satisfactory or do I need to change?"
Peter shook his head, "you look beautiful, come on before I have to literally drag you from the apartment."
"I'd like to see you try."
Peter chuckled, "is that a dare Dunham because you know I can't resist a dare?"
"Shut up before I shoot you."
Dinner was at a small diner two blocks over, they walked in silence the entire time. Peter knew she was still brewing and it was best to let her do so for a while. He'd see about getting her some type of grief counselor to deal with the emotions that remained from facing the reality of never having a family.
He was dealing with it too because his dream of having a few daughters with their mother's eyes was crushed…and it was his biological father's hand that crushed that dream. Coming to terms with it was hard, at times he wanted to go back and prevent himself from ever leaving because Olivia wouldn't have become sterile if he hadn't but he couldn't change the past.
Helping Olivia come to terms with it, especially when she believed he didn't deserve her or even want her because of her inability to have children but he did…he wanted her as she was, he wanted Olivia Dunham, the one who crossed universes for him, who wanted his reassurance when she was scared…who was perfect for him.
His only real urge for answers came in two questions: why had Walternate made her sterile? Why had he removed one of her ovaries and made the other useless?
He doubted he or Olivia would get the answers but in the end, it didn't really matter…they couldn't change anything.
Arriving at the diner, Peter sat across from Olivia and watched as she ordered food…more food then he thought she could eat but he knew she was probably hungry. After ordering food himself, he found Olivia staring at him.
"You really don't care do you?"
Peter shook his head, "not about this…but us, I'll fight till my dying breathe to keep us together. I can't understand why you think I wouldn't want you. Four years ago I never thought I'd find a home, some semblance of a family or someone I would want to spend the rest of my life with. Just because there won't be children doesn't mean I don't want the next fifty years with you."
Olivia chuckled, "fifty years?"
"Fifty years Sweetheart, in the year 2060 I want to be sitting on a porch with you. I want to own a lake house, be able to sit on a dock and hold you in my arms." He reached over and pulled her chin up when she looked down. "You're my future 'Livia…you are the most precious thing to me, if I could change all this…I wouldn't have run, I'd go back and change it if I could…in a heartbeat but I can't Sweetheart, I can't no matter how much I want too.
"And if I see him again, so help me nothing will stop me from putting a bullet in his head. He hurt you, he tricked me and he stole both our dreams…I wanted a few daughters with your green eyes who would be exactly like you, both looks and attitude. He stole that from me but he didn't take you 'Livia…and I thank whatever higher power there is for that. I wouldn't trade you for a dozen children, never in a million years."
Olivia shook her head, "one day you'll wake up and wonder why you wanted me, when you see the neighbors playing with their kids."
"No I won't…because they may have kids but in the end, they're never really satisfied in life. Having you, working with the FBI, running Massive Dynamic…that is enough for me. I could live my life with all that, but mainly you and be completely satisfied."
"Are you completely sure?"
"Completely, two hundred percent sure…besides, the week between getting you back and finding out about this, I've never been more happy."
Olivia looked at him and found his eyes staring at her with more love then she could ever expect to voice, he looked at her as if she was his entire world and in a way, she now knew she was.
A/N: Next is six months down the line, how is everything between them? We also get a little twist, I said something a few chapters back and decided to reverse it but in big surprise...but not Olivia's condition, she won't be able to have kids.
However, Walternate did screw up in his expirements and in that screw up, something happened...something you'll see soon.